LePage wasn’t “easily” reelected, but won 48 percent of the vote, the rest split between Democrat Mike Michaud (43 percent) and former Democrat-turned-spoiler Eliot Cutler, who got 8 percent. Cutler played the same game in 2010, allowing LePage to get elected in the first place with just 38 percent of the vote. This go-round LePage had the Trump effect on his side — the two have a lot in common.

And as a third-generation newspaper editor, who was in the business 33 years, I can tell you that his admiration of reporters from the 1950s and 1960s is based on what many of his statements are based on — absolutely nothing aside from his imagination and lack of information. And he is wrong, as usual.

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Don’t even get me started on his assertion that 93 percent of the state’s drug arrests are people of color.

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Michael A. Cohen takes on the absurdities and hypocrisies of the current political moment.

It’s easy for you big-city folks to find him so amusing, basically turning the horror that is LePage into a cute golf story — but many of us in Maine consider him an embarrassment and an obstacle to the kind of good, civil government we’re known for.